The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

can get over ground about as fast a
a locomotive. Mrs A. Hall has a daugh-
ter, Anna, that was born in 1872, conse
Quentiy she is Is years old and only 3(
inches in height She is a perfect model OF
a woman, is sprightly, intelligent and
pretty. She goes about her household
duties like n little lady, but being so small
she is not required to do much. She is
about the smallest woman in the world.
On the down train for Savannah Tues
day night was drunken negro who seemed
bent on michef When about to be elected
from the train for having no ticket he pro
| duced one and then tried to pick quarrel
with peaceful neighbor When he got off
at Waynesboro he chung to the hand-rail
and was being dragged along Wien Bag
gngeman Joe Herndan jumped off and
! pulled him away. The train had about left
the station then and the negro turned on
| HernGan, and after dealing him several Sc
we're blows turned and disappeared. Mr..
| Herudan had only gone to the negroes res
cue to save him from the wheels and cells
badly about the nature of the thanks he re-
| ceived in return.
A negro named Martin Kelly was killed
| by John Spell in Brooks county Tuesday.
| 1t seems that the negro got mad about a
settlement between him and Spell. Spell
was pulling fodder when the negro went
| into the field and began abusing and curSing
him, telling him that he would kill him-if
not by daylight then he would by torch
! light. l4e went for Spell in the field with
his knife and stick, whereupon Spell ran,
and by being swift reached the house before
| the negro. Kelly followed to tho house and
| continued cursing Spell, Spell went into
the house, took down his double-bareled
| hreech loader, and proceeded to business
| He Shot the negro i'll the head, the whole
| load, wads and ALL entering Just above the
ta hftI l,n
| jury rendering verdict Of justifiable homi-
| eide.
| Wednesday Comptroller General Wright
| received the tax digests from ten additional
! counties. The returns are interesting, and
| are as follows: Chatham county returns
s24 467, $40, an increase Of 81 ,0i5, 335 New
! ton county returns 32,232, SSS, an increase of
| S6S,5lJ Wilkinson county returns 81 ,24S,-
| III, an increase of SIC, 800; Mitchell county
| returns Si,43l, $50, an increase of S3,33l !;
| MCDuiie county returns 1896 427, a de-
crease Of $2G,571; Pike county returns
! S2,G49, 2j2, decrease of $40, l41; Paulding
county returns 81 ,325, 219, decrease of
| Sl2T OBJ; Murray county returns 81, 1876, 035,
IA decrease of So l65; Hart county returns
Sl,ll2,G gig, IA decrease Of $65360; Gordon
| county returns S2,O0,G47. The digests are
coming IN very fast, and notwithstanding a
large number of counties show falling off
grcEate list of counties SO far show de-
cidcd increase over that Of last year.
Health Officer Roberts, who is providing
around the back yards Of peoples premises
at Dawson, got into trouble last week.
which was little serious though amusing
He is in the habit of hanging or hooking his
nose over the high fences and prying into
back yards, III search Of something to report
TO headquarters. An old lady i'll a certain
,lnl hoN s,.,l xFA1 he
| dent stranger treating people that way, de
cided TO fix him, as it We're. She lay in am
bush two days before she saw his ugly era
MUM protrude over the fence, but when she
did get glimpse of him, she made a pass
ut him with the battling stick and when he
got up he thought that lightning had struck
him. His wife says that he frequently
lodges and SHES yet, like mule that had
boon beaten over the head. The Old lady
loosened two Of his teeth and if you don't
believe it just feel of them.
The much talked OF scare about the Plan
| terS' Loan and Savings Bank of Augusta is
something of a needle in q haystack. The
stockholders convention was held Wednes-
day i'll the banking pariors, with Eugene
Vcrdery III the chair and b. II. Smith act
ing secretary A full quorum was present
and the meeting was very harmonious.
Nothing, in fact, to disturb the serenity of
and every one, were satisfied by President
Wright OF the perfect solvency of
the bank and its condition. The state
ment OF the officers was full and very clear,
and the fact of passing a dividend shown
from the record to be u rare thing with the
bank. 1t was decided to continue the bank
ing business and to apply to the Legislature
for an amendment to the charter. This ap-
plication will be made at once, and the talk
of turning the bank into an insurance com
pany later on promises TO be materialiZcd
This seems to be the best thing tn the ma
iority, and they think there is moro
in insurance than in ha"' tn the
present double taxation the city there
can ba no doubt of it, there is no tell
ing what tho other bani will do.
At Americas Monday IN Ling Neelham
Lamb swore ont a warrant for tine arrest OF
his nephew, Joe Duckworth, better known
as Joe Duck, for outraging. half sister
three weeks ago Tuesday The unfortunate
woman Mittie Lamb, is deformed in one
arm and a leg, and is not considered very
bright. She wanted to 90 to her sisters
house, west of Americus and her nephew
| agreed to carry her. When they were pass
ing new house, built by the Heys brothers,
a few miles from town, Duck, seeing no
workmen about the place, turned aside TO
| Iookat the house. The poor woman protested
but he persuaded her TO go in and look at il,
and while i'll there forced her to submit TO
his hellish passion. She being both mentally
and physically afflicted, could do nothing
but scream, which brought her no relief
He then got her back to his buggy and car
ried her to her sisters, and there left her
The sister, after long persuasion, got the
story out of the unfortunate woman, and
the truth was made known to her brother,
the warrant was taken out but the Duck is
gone He has been in town nearly every
day, until last Saturday, since he committed
the crime, but Monday, fearing that he
would be caught he left for parts unknown
Ella Bennett and Catherine Pollock, ne
crosses living upon the AmoSkeag nj |
grounds near Eastman, engaged in a free
fight on Thursday last, i'll which the former
vigorously used a razor with moSC horrible
effect. She first inflicted upon her antago-
mist dccp, long cash across the left breast
laying bare the bones, from which wound
the blood flowed in copious streams. 1t
seems that Catherine was uuarmed,
| and after the first stroke Of the keen
weapon, the Combatants embraced
each other, and again the woman with the
razor got in her bloody work. Tho already
fearfuily wounded woman was then cut
from the right ear clear around the back of
the neck 10 the left ear, the sharp instru-
mcnt sevcring the arteries and touching the
bones i'll It's course causing the head of the
now almost lifeless woman to fall upon her
breast. She also received other wounds,
and would doubtless have been killed upon
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